Thanks a lot for the feedback, Stan.

You’re totally right about sensor-based scanning. As you can read I already tested the newer SR300 (there’s no F300 as far as I know) earlier and it’s better indeed. So it’s more that Wacom has chosen to include outdated RealSense hardware in the tablet.

I’ve edited the post to reflect this better!

You might find the bust I use “tired” but I deliberately use the same objects for my reviews for better comparison. Unfortunately I can’t scan many different objects for every review, especially not non-dedicated 3D scanners.

Your object scan use case is the same tired old sculpture type object with tons of color and surface random texture which will greatly favor a high pixel count RGB only approach with many images. In fact, rarely does this Remake approach work on anything BUT such chalky texture similar shape and size objects. I have had nice results with Remake on even human sculptures, but some gargantuan error crops up that is far too difficult to post process and fix.

Any object that has much less features, will cause Remake and similar RGB only approaches to fail spectacularly, after sometimes hours of cloud processing. Here is where a depth sensor comes into play.

The problem with Realsense R200 is that it’s depth perception is crap and it’s XY is full of holes. You should try this with the new front facing Intel Realsense F300 or something like that, which uses structured light approach and has somewhat better depth and XY density, compared to the R200.

So the conclusions drawn in this article are far from valid. Just try Remake yourself on a variety of objects. You’ll see why it’s a fun toy you’ll only use once.